Saw Aeon Flux last night [Archive]

Dave-ros

12-03-2005, 01:18 PM

Imfamous said:
Yeah, any movie with any involvement with MTV is kinda bound to suck...

Ahem, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? Or is that the exception that proves the rule? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Imfamous

12-03-2005, 01:26 PM

Dave-ros said:
Ahem, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? Or is that the exception that proves the rule? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

That was before MTV was complete shit. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I also remember there used to be a pretty great cartoon about this guy with an alien living inside his gigantic head. Memories. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

avatar_58

12-03-2005, 01:38 PM

Undergrads also had involvement with MTV.....and that show certainly isn't shit. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Damien_Azreal

12-03-2005, 02:08 PM

I can't believe you payed to see it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Just the trailers I saw on TV were enough to put me off. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mryuck.gif

Kev_Hectic

12-03-2005, 07:01 PM

NutWrench said:
Heh. Aeon Flux was a bizarre, fetishistic mess when it was on MTV (back when it was cool). I never had high hopes for it, though.

Yeah, I agree with you about the show. I could never get into it. The movie looks pretty bad too, looking at the previews.

Andre

12-03-2005, 08:24 PM

Paramount didn't even have a special showing for the critics before its release. That alone should be an indicitive sign of "Moviegoer Beware..." Generally, when a studio doesn't have a critics' showing, it means they're just trying to stave off what they know in their gut will be a movie subject to negative reviews.

avatar_58

12-04-2005, 12:55 AM

Andre said:
Paramount didn't even have a special showing for the critics before its release. That alone should be an indicitive sign of "Moviegoer Beware..." Generally, when a studio doesn't have a critics' showing, it means they're just trying to stave off what they know in their gut will be a movie subject to negative reviews.

Thats what I assumed too. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Wamplet

12-04-2005, 01:53 AM

Aeon Fux.

Travis

12-04-2005, 02:22 AM

Wamplet said:
Aeon Fux.

Lolol, yuo so wittay.

Apparently theres a game made out of this, as well. For PS2.

Wamplet

12-04-2005, 04:07 PM

Reminds me of Solar Fux. Not sure what happened to him. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

Taril

12-04-2005, 07:43 PM

I was so dissapointed with this movie. I was really expecting it to be good. I shoulda known MTV would fudge it up. Last time I ever spend money on a MTV movie.

Marty

12-04-2005, 08:11 PM

Wamplet said:
Aeon Fux.

indeedio

Grande 3:16

12-04-2005, 08:19 PM

I had actually never heard of it. But I thought the summary at IMDb sounded promising...

Aeon Flux is set 400 years in the future, in a supposedly utopian society, where a secret rebellion is brewing. In the coming war between the totalitarian government, who impose order with ruthless efficiency, and those who oppose it with ruthless abandon, the one person who may prove that individuals still matter is Aeon Flux. Flux (Charlize Theron) is the top operative in the underground "Monican" rebellion and when her assignment is to assassinate a leading government official she begins to realize that there is more to uncover than even she expected.

But you guys saved me $15. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Don't really like Charlize Theron anyway.

Wamplet

12-04-2005, 09:08 PM

I knew it would suck at the end of the commercial where she nearly gets raped by the grass. I mean there has been quite a bit of corn in Arnold's and Van Damme's movies, but sheeeeit, that was just corny. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

Damien_Azreal

12-04-2005, 09:31 PM

I loved the cartoon, so there was no way a movie would ever live up to it.

Just a cheap way to cash in. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Damn MTV.

JeremyGritton

12-04-2005, 09:55 PM

Well for whatever reason, my gf really wanted to see this movie so I agreed (grudgingly) to go last night.

The movie wasn't very good. The beginning was particularly horrible. I was starting to put it on the level of other pieces of crap I have seen such as Dungeons and Dragons & Battlefield Earth. It started to improve a little bit toward the end, which redeemed it to the point that I didn't consider it a complete waste of time.

I hated the way it was directed, and I didn't care for a lot of the outfits / backdrops. There were a lot of unexplained parts of the story, which I'm guessing stem from cartoon and make sense if you're a fan. For the average movie goer however, its just confusing. Things happen and you don't even understand why, or how (like the little metal balls that she controls when she whistles - wtf? )

The concept of the story was actually interesting, it was just poorly executed. It was really the movies one saving grace. Aeon Flux could have been so much better, in my opinion. At least I didn't pay for my ticket. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hudson

12-04-2005, 10:51 PM

The only two good movies to ever come out of MTV were Office Space and B&B

Paroxysm

12-05-2005, 01:42 AM

Don't forget "election" and the movie cut of "The Maxx"

Mongorian

12-05-2005, 02:52 AM

I liked Napoleon Dynamite too, which I believe they funded. The jackass movie was funny at least the first time you watch it. Orange County, Hustle & flow, Coach Carter, these are all perfectly enjoyable movies. I even liked Save the Last Dance. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Travis

12-05-2005, 03:01 AM

The Longest Yard wasn't very good, either.

Mongorian

12-05-2005, 04:24 AM

Travis said:
The Longest Yard wasn't very good, either.

Well, duh. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I don't know what any of this has to do with the quality of MTV films; they fund projects that they think will make them money. Sometimes they are alright movies, sometimes they are not. Surprising!

Nessus

12-05-2005, 09:34 AM

Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Worst movie I have ever payed to see.

Go see Rent, you'll take that back.

Piano Man

12-14-2005, 09:58 AM

Dave-ros said:

Imfamous said:
Yeah, any movie with any involvement with MTV is kinda bound to suck...

Ahem, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? Or is that the exception that proves the rule? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

No - Beavis and Butthead sucks... What druggy came up with this cartoon... it's even worse than Family Guy..... and ren and stimpy combined.

crunchy superman

12-14-2005, 01:05 PM

Piano Man said:
No - Beavis and Butthead sucks... What druggy came up with this cartoon... it's even worse than Family Guy..... and ren and stimpy combined.

Funny > you

Tetsuro

12-14-2005, 03:25 PM

Andre said:
Paramount didn't even have a special showing for the critics before its release. That alone should be an indicitive sign of "Moviegoer Beware..." Generally, when a studio doesn't have a critics' showing, it means they're just trying to stave off what they know in their gut will be a movie subject to negative reviews.

So? They didn't give a special preview of Batman Returns to either critics or moviegoers, either.

Tang Lung

12-14-2005, 03:29 PM

Piano Man said:

Dave-ros said:

Imfamous said:
Yeah, any movie with any involvement with MTV is kinda bound to suck...

Ahem, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? Or is that the exception that proves the rule? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

No - Beavis and Butthead sucks... What druggy came up with this cartoon...

An incredibly rich druggie..

Kalki

08-04-2007, 10:36 PM

Bump

The movie wasn't very good. The beginning was particularly horrible. I was starting to put it on the level of other pieces of crap I have seen such as Dungeons and Dragons & Battlefield Earth. It started to improve a little bit toward the end, which redeemed it to the point that I didn't consider it a complete waste of time.

I hated the way it was directed, and I didn't care for a lot of the outfits / backdrops.

...

The concept of the story was actually interesting, it was just poorly executed. It was really the movies one saving grace. Aeon Flux could have been so much better, in my opinion. At least I didn't pay for my ticket. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Caught this on tv last night. Darktalyn's post pretty much sums up my opinion. It had a good premise but with no build-up in the first act whatsoever. The climax fight scene was badly handled imo and the acting was mediocre.

Damien_Azreal

08-04-2007, 11:03 PM

The movie is an insult to the cartoon... and I for one still hate myself for watching the damn film.

Paroxysm

08-04-2007, 11:17 PM

I have to admit that even with my initial burning hatred for this film it is a bit of a guilty pleasure now. The series is still just a genuine pleasure however :)

Simon Charles

08-05-2007, 08:26 AM

The movie was being played at the electronics store I went to last week, on the HDTV floor. They usually play action flicks in the home theater sections. I stood there for a few moments and watched the scene where Aeon and the other girl running are in the cutting grass... couldn't believe what I was seeing. Such a mess. I was laughing at the crappiness.

Decided never to watch it.

Inanimate Carbon Rod

08-05-2007, 10:16 AM

Well a couple of weeks later I paid to see Ultraviolet, and it currently is the worst movie I have paid to see.

Damien_Azreal

08-05-2007, 11:02 AM

I would rank Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet about even... they both sucked.

Amakou

08-05-2007, 11:57 AM

Don't forget Elektra.

~Amakou~

Damien_Azreal

08-05-2007, 01:11 PM

Marcos_Edson

08-05-2007, 01:46 PM

Eh, I dare to put "Bloodrayne" above "Catwoman"... :dopefish:

Amakou

08-05-2007, 02:33 PM

Didn't even lower myself enough to watch that POS. I saw the first fifteen minutes of it and stopped the DVD.

I figured it would suck, but didn't expect it to suck that bad right off the bat.

While we're on the subject, at least Ultraviolet was better than the new Cat Women. :mryuck:

I didn't see it either, I mean, come ON. It's a spinoff of a dead character from Daredevil...if that doesn't say "CRAP" all over it, I don't know what does.

You know, the truth of it is. Any movie where the superhero style main character is a woman sucks. I can't think of any like that that were good...

~Amakou~

Damien_Azreal

08-05-2007, 03:05 PM

Eh, I dare to put "Bloodrayne" above "Catwoman"... :dopefish:

Refused to watch Bloodrayne because of the Uwe Boll taint... and Catwoman I didn't finish.

Halle Berry is hard to watch in most movies... but in that one she's ungodly horrid.

Tetsuro

08-05-2007, 04:01 PM

I got the Aeon Flux movie on DVD, for free. I sold it, so at least I profited from it. :P

The movie is...well, it's kind of interesting how it's problems are the opposite of what is usually wrong with modern action films: good direction with a crappy plot. Aeon Flux has a pretty good plot, but fails in everything else. And since you'll know the plot after you've watched it...well...Aeon Flux is definitely a "single viewing" kind of movie. You don't care to see it afterwards.